Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustrated. A description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1879)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York, D.M. Bennett, Liberal and Scientific Publishing House · leaf 299
nature, with her unerring laws,demands a correspondence in colour, as well as in all othercharacteristics. The white races are advancing, and indeedall races move from the coarser to the finer texture, fromthe physical to the spiritual. The Indian is a superior being to the Negro, and thewhite man… … THE GENERATIVE CAPACITY. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.—Gen. ix. 1. Nature has placed in all vegetable and animal life aprinciple of reproduction, of which the cardinal character-istic is, that like produces like. The theory of spontaneousgeneration denies this characteristic,…
Physiognomy
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